Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower. Thanks Lee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? I’m surprised at the number of people who aren’t good at tracking down relationships in social networks. If you’re three s -hot kids from Stanford, Caltech or MIT you might be able to push valuation higher. Most people are lazy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. The missing piece is getting reviewed by campus blogs and newspapers, which I advised Chris to look into. I like these two strategies. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

Unfortunately, SaaS Start-Up Valuations Are About To Fall by 50% | saastr – crowdspring.co/1j3n4bO. The Answer to the Organic Reach vs Advertising Problem on Social Media Channels – crowdspring.co/1rTUmdM. Why the social networks are falling apart | Computerworld by Mike Elgan – crowdspring.co/1mAjDIB.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Intellectual property is a large element of most early-stage company valuations, and this value determines what percent of the company an investor will expect to get for his money. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. See their blog post on multiples.). The Long Term Stock Exchange is building out a set of tools for founders for managing their cap tables, 409A valuations, cash on hand, options pool, investor relations, etc.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. Hulu emerged in the social networking era and yet Boxee has been way out in front in terms of creating social viewing experiences.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Nathan Hursts Blog Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups « Back to blog Im on the technical side of entrepreneurship in NYC. 7] Non-technical cofounder invests money -5% per $10k: This is an approximation based on a very early stage valuation of $200k. I love programming, board games, and my wife.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane. eCommerce was battered this year.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Fab.com Fab Feed Bradfords Blog. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. I wear it on my sleeve (and on my blog). 500M valuation = $5B target.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In order to investigate companies, you will need to take an in-depth look at their business valuation, go over any breaches of warranties/acquisitions/or disagreements, and calculate and then quantify any damages or losses sustained by the company. The more visual your business is, the higher a chance of being found is.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 4, 2009

Sometimes I’ll see people who want to make people aware of a blog posting. They’ll say “@msuster provides great insight into VC valuation discussions – see [link] &#. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. When does this come into play? They might have 2,000 followers.

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Social Network Social Media Valuation Naming 291

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter and Facebook for recent news and updates.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. RCSMs premise is that they can reach an investment decision (and valuation) based on an application completed by the founders and take gut feel out of the decision process.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years! ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. Mostly, no.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

We werent able to declare a winner, but I did agree to write a blog post on the topic. In a convertible note structure, Im penalized for increasing your valuation. Instead of getting a 2-3x multiple from seed to Series A, I get a discount off of the Series A, so Im better off financially with a lower valuation. Blog Archive.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. In 2014 3 out of 12 exits were occurred at a lower valuation than the previous round.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

The Journal of Advertising Research evaluated athlete endorsements effect on both stock market valuation and sales data. Gigya.com (Review plugin that uses social network login vs standard login. Well, for starters recent behavioral research by Granify revealed that “social proof” is(.) Conclusion.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

That may come as a shock to many of you because of all the articles and blogs I write, and the speaking gigs I have, and the fact that I’m in the business of recommending things to millions of people?—?but startups with billion-dollar valuations) in recent years. but it’s true. 8, 2018); “ Female founders have brought in just 2.2%

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Based on the list posted on StartupWeekend Resources pag e and the TokBox blog. Website/Blogging. Social networking. Social/Sharing. website/blog spelling checker. Analytics blog â?? Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. another blogging platform.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. We are typically looking at either smaller exits or require a lower valuation to get a reasonable step-up to a venture round. Blog Archive.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit. I read their damn blogs! A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2010

Facebook is being touted as the final platform, the social network to beat all social networks. And yes, it still has some laughable valuations ($100 billion). Tags: entrepreneurship alexa facebook facebook overtakes google Google hitwise internet traffic social media. Could I live without Google?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2012

I just read the following numbers on the High Scalability blog. Instagram had similar efficiencies , and we will see more and more startups aspire to and beat these benchmarks and try to emulate Instagram’s $1bn exit or Pinterest’s $1.5bn valuation. As most of you will know, the enablers are cloud computing and open source software.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

Another comment which probably deserves more discussion is around valuation. One of the panelists mentioned that they have gotten very valuation sensitive (nothing wrong with that) and like to purchase preferred stock rather than invest in convertible notes. Labels: angel groups , valuation. Blog Archive. Help, please.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. Probably as a function of the gold standard (global price of gold as the trading valuation mechanism) with some form of digital instant and unseen conversion from our home currency into some quantum derived from gold.

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